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Posted by Musicmaker on October 14, 2009, 8:04 am
don't know if 3" is the norm for quilting cotton - but it is for denim
jeans!
Musicmaker who only has 2 pair of jeans that fit!
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Posted by Tia Mary on October 14, 2009, 10:09 am
Musicmaker wrote:
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> don't know if 3" is the norm for quilting cotton - but it is for denim
> jeans!
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> Musicmaker who only has 2 pair of jeans that fit!
I don't have any 100% cotton denim jeans anymore but DH does. Even
when I did wear them, I never had them shrink that much. I wonder what
we are doing differently when we wash them??? I've always used warm
water to wash and "normal" heat & drying time for DH's jeans.
Regardless, on the first wash/dry, they do shrink but not as much as you
have experienced and it's never a problem for DH's jeans because he has
no legs - 20" inseam -- and it's virtually impossible to jeans that
length so I end up getting a 32" length. I wash his new jeans in the
hottest water possible but they never shrink enough and he has to turn
up the cuffs.
I'm not saying your wrong -- far from it -- just that I have never
experienced what you have. I wonder what we do differently?? I will
say that I have experienced near that much shrinkage when I have
pre-washed denim yardage. That stuff shrinks like flannel does!
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Posted by Dr. Zachary Smith on October 14, 2009, 11:10 am
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> Musicmaker wrote:
> > don't know if 3" is the norm for quilting cotton - but it is for denim
> > jeans!
> > Musicmaker who only has 2 pair of jeans that fit!
> =A0 =A0 I don't have any 100% cotton denim jeans anymore but DH does. =A0=
Even
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> when I did wear them, I never had them shrink that much. =A0I wonder what
> we are doing differently when we wash them??? =A0
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Biting... hole... clean... through... lip... <ARGHHH!!!>
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Posted by NightMist on October 14, 2009, 12:12 pm
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:10:59 -0700 (PDT), "Dr. Zachary Smith"
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>> Musicmaker wrote:
>> > don't know if 3" is the norm for quilting cotton - but it is for denim
>> > jeans!
>> > Musicmaker who only has 2 pair of jeans that fit!
>> =A0 =A0 I don't have any 100% cotton denim jeans anymore but DH does. =A0=
>Even
>> when I did wear them, I never had them shrink that much. =A0I wonder what
>> we are doing differently when we wash them??? =A0
*pats Doc on the head* There there...just think of the mass confusion
and hair pulling lip biting frustration as a part of better living
through textiles. (G)
Puh-leez ladies!
Surely you know by now that how you wash them after you get them home
is only a small part of how jeans fit!
I would lay money that if you go to a shop, and buy 5 different brands
of jeans that fit you, they will be in at least two different sizes
(maybe all five will be different sizes), and not one of them will act
like another so far as how they react to laundering.
One of the reasons I still half dry new jeans and put up with the
discomfort of wearing them dry. These days you never know what
commercial clothes are going to do when you wash them.
NightMist
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Legolas is my house elf
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Posted by Dr. Zachary Smith on October 14, 2009, 12:34 pm
On Oct 14, 12:12=A0pm, nightmi...@gmail.com (NightMist) wrote:
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> On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:10:59 -0700 (PDT), "Dr. Zachary Smith"
> *pats Doc on the head* =A0There there...just think of the mass confusion
> and hair pulling lip biting frustration as a part of better living
> through textiles. (G)
It wasn't that. I was holding myself back from making an
inappropriate (but hilarious in my own mind) remark/joke about what
the ladies were doing differently when they washed their jeans...
Don't bother asking - I'm NOT going to say it, publicly or privately!
Leave it to your imagination.
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> Puh-leez ladies!
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> One of the reasons I still half dry new jeans and put up with the
> discomfort of wearing them dry. =A0
Damn, that's hot! I'm calling my old lady for a date tonite! :-)
Doc
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